# Language news, Monday, 5 October 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's language news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/language-news/2026-10-05/

## Egypt courts start AI speech-to-text for Egyptian dialects

Tech. Egypt's Justice Ministry put AI speech-to-text into criminal courtrooms from 1 October, turning spoken proceedings in Egyptian dialects into written records as part of judicial digitisation.

Source: Cairo Scene, https://cairoscene.com/News/AI-Speech-to-Text-System-for-Egyptian-Courts-Launches-October-1st

## UNESCO publishes multilingual digital toolkit drawn from Welsh bilingual tech

Tech. UNESCO adapted Wales's Bilingual Technology Toolkit into a Practical Toolkit for Supporting Multilingual Digital Services for websites, apps and public services in low-resource and Indigenous languages. Wales's bilingual stack is now a UN template for smaller languages online.

Source: Welsh Government, https://media.service.gov.wales/news/unesco-highlights-wales-global-leadership-in-supporting-languages-in-the-digital-age